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Table 4

Benefits and opportunities of Industry 4.0

“We have people that are managing Excel spreadsheets and stuff like that we do not need them doing. The data is there in the system. We just do not know how to mind it back out.”(P1)
And I think that is where Quality and Regulatory will shift to a new paradigm, not being reactive in quality, saying, OK, we ran the batch, but we had an issue. It is kind of turning it around and saying, OK, what can we forecast now based on the results we see from this run ?Is there anything across that trend pattern we can see? We can't do that at the moment. We can, but it means bringing all that data and putting it somewhere in Excel or something like that. We are going to have this online at our fingertips.”(P2)
“The data can only improve the decision-making. And it should allow decisions to be made quicker. So, you know, systems can analyze data quicker than humans. You know, I think we should make better decisions in a timely fashion and be more pre-empt failures before they occur.”(P4)
“So, the benefit is the speed and the data at your fingertips. Reviewing the trend that the system is telling me as opposed to putting the trend together and working on the improvement, working with the people, working on the process, and not sitting at your table doing up trends and pulling data and pulling your hair out. So, lots of benefits.”(P11)
“Like you know, we always do, you know, raw material testing when it comes on site like that. I probably take a good bet that the supplier has also done his, you know, ID [identification] testing and everything else and stuff like that. So why can't we use their data to remove that step from our process? And your point is correct, how does granulate from supplier A, how does that perform in our granulators and the rest of our equipment compared to supplier B and things like that, right.” (P8)

Source(s): Authors’ own work